January 2, 2024 2024 Intentions I looked back at my ’23 Intentions and everything written over the past year in my journal, some of it didn’t make it to…
November 18, 2023 Birthday Missive ’23 As always, I am grateful for all the calls, texts, and posts from those who acknowledge the day I came to be. I think…
September 18, 2023 Journey In the realm of shadows deep, I tread, A journey into Blackness, where light is spread. Emerging from the shroud of night’s embrace, I…
September 18, 2023 Journey Into Blackness As I plunge deeper into Blackness, there is nothing but light. As I emerge from the shadows of my own Blackness, I see color….
June 21, 2023 June 20th (1865) Yesterday Juneteenth was celebrated as a national holiday. I’ve been contemplating this question – What did the formerly enslaved Black people do on the…
June 19, 2023 Happy Father’s Day Nothing in this world brings me more joy than being a father. I cherish the fact that I am the father of two amazing…
March 30, 2023 Cut the Cord This was one of my 23 intentions that I kind of started working on at the end of ’22, the goal was to get…
March 30, 2023 Guns and Babies It should hit home with this one statistic – the leading cause of death for children 1-19 in America is gun violence. I don’t…
February 28, 2023 Daddy’s Jacket This morning I put on daddy’s jacket. I forgot I had it. I forgot I needed it. The reflection in the mirror and in…
January 20, 2023 Reparations? You’ve been hoodwinked, bamboozled, run amok! Every time I hear about Evanston Reparations that exactly how I feel, there I said it! Until yesterday,…